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Manaw

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Manaw festival is the most significant event for the Kachin people. Tribes of Kachin gather and dance around erected Manaw...
Lao New Year

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Lao New Year is based on the Buddhist calendar. It is widely celebrated in Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Thai. People start food...
Durga Puja

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Durga Puja is an important festival in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism, honouring the goddess Durga and marking her victory...
Karen New Year

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Marks the end of the previous year and the beginning of the New Year of the ethnic Karen people in Korea. The date changes with...
Losar

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Losar marks the first month of the Tibetan Buddhist New Year. It is celebrated by Sherpa, Tibetan, Gurung, Tamang, Magar and...
Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated globally on 9 August. It marks the date of the inaugural...
Maslenitsa

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Maslenitsa is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday, celebrated mainly by Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian communities....
Sri Lankan New Year

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Beltane

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Eid al-Fitr

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Eid al-Fitr is celebrated by Muslim people the whole world over, marking the end of fasting in the month of Ramadan. It is the...
Tết

Put this event in your diary. It's a 'Heads-Up' event listing with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. Vietnamese New Year is celebrated on the same date as Chinese New Year. Both are based on the same lunisolar calendar. In 2023, it falls on...
Shogatsu

Put this event in your diary. It's a 'Heads-Up' event listing with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. Shōgatsu, also called Oshōgatsu, public holiday observed in Japan on January 1–3 (though celebrations sometimes last for the entire week),...
Congo Independence Day

Put this event in your diary. It's a 'Heads-Up' event listing with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. In November 1965, five years after independence, Army Chief of Staff Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seized power in a coup d'état. He ran the country...
Chinese New Year

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays on the Chinese calendar, marking the end of winter and the coming of...
Africa Day

Put this event in your diary. It's a 'Heads-Up' event listing, which means it's not yet scheduled with dates and times. EVENT DESCRIPTION Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. It is...